First short profile of Azerbaijan

Thanks to our expert Yashar Huseynli we can present a first short cultural policy profile of Azerbaijan on the Compendium.

Short profiles aim to summarise the cultural policy profiles from the database and give a quick overview of the most important elements of a country’s cultural policy.

Below you can see some of recent changes and developments regarding Azerbaijan cultural policy:

• The growing export of oil and natural gas leads to a constantly increasing state budget and has a positive impact on the budget for culture, which increased by 42.3% over these years.
• Azerbaijan Federation of Creative Industries was established in November 2021 to coordinate the development of creative industries and manage international and local projects in this field. 
• On May 5, 2022, the Action Plan for 2022-2027 of the global call “Peace for Culture”, initiated by the Republic of Azerbaijan, was signed at the UN headquarters between the UN Alliance of Civilizations and the Republic of Azerbaijan. 
• Due to the decentralisation of budgetary expenditure on culture, most of the public funds are now distributed locally. In 2015, the share of cultural expenditure was in parity between state and regional level and changed in 2021 to 66% (regions) and 33% (state).

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